26. At this, all the people from the least to the greatest, together with the army officers, fled to Egypt for fear of the Babylonians.
27. In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the year Awel-Marduk became king of Babylon, he released Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison. He did this on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month.
28. He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat of honour higher than those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.